What Is Your Favorite Quote?

"Those whom the gods would destroy, they first blind with greed."
- Unknown

"If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them."
- Basuto proverb

To an adolescent - "I value your opinion, but not when I know better. And in this case, I know better."
- Robert Ruark

When life is rough - "I'd rather be fishin'."
- My Dad

"Good people must love their enemies."
-Chilindrina (a character from a very old mexican child comedy show, "El Chavo del Ocho")-

"Only the idiots are sure of what they say"
-Sr. Barriga (from the same show - I quoted that on my monograph about Theaceae ^.^)-

edited to add one more quote.

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One favorite of mine:

"Well-behaved women seldom make history" (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich )

Eileen

I have this posted on my computer.

Patience: the ability to idle your motor, when you feel like stripping your gears!!

Maxine

I have this one on my computer....'A clean house is a sign of a broken computer.' :)

Also this one: Ask God what YOU can do; not equal gifts but Equal Sacrifice.........For such a time as this.

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked.

Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

Meanness don't happen overnight.

To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.

Never lay an angry hand on a kid or an animal, it just ain't helpful.

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

Two can live as cheap as one if one don't eat.

Don't corner something meaner than you.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You can't unsay a cruel thing.

Every path has some puddles.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.

Meanness don't happen overnight.

That reminds me of another favorite of mine, earthling:

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

such a lovely quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The truth will set you free"

"My house is clean enough to be healthy & dirty enough to be happy" lol

"Be like the flowers, turn your faces toward the sun, and the shadows will always be behind you."Kahlil Gibran

I learned this when a family member was in a substance abuse center. It's been around awhile but most people don't know the second part.
"Don't sweat the small stuff and REMEMBER, most stuff IS small stuff."
I also like a quote from Helen Hayes, "Old age is not for cowards."

"The beginning is always today."
(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
(Socrates)

"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
(Terence)

"If your feet smell and your nose runs, you're built upside down!"
(Unknown)

"Never wrestle with a pig: You both get all dirty and the pig likes it."
(Unknown)

"When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?"
(St. Augustine of Hippo, (born 354 AD))

"To the man with brown fingers, a plant may just as well be inanimate, and by the time he is finished with it, it is."
(Christopher Lloyd, American garden writer)

"Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself (from a 1963 CBS interview)."
(Rachel Louise Carson, American author, environmentalist (born 5/25/1907))

"I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn."
(C.E. Cowman)

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
(James Baldwin)

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
(John Burroughs)

"To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough."
(Cecil Roberts (New York Times 5/13/1951))

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero, poet, philosopher (born 106 BC))

And lastly, a favorite of mine by DG's own Zanymuse...

"At Birth my life was a clean slate, at 40 it was filled with joys and sorrows, but as the memory is clouded with the whiteout of age it is fast becoming a clean slate again."
(Zanymuse)

TC...

Are there two Christopher Lloyds? *G*

I wondered the same thing, Baa. Is Christopher Lloyd the gardening writer the same Christorpher Lloyd that is an actor and was the professor in all 3 episodes of "Back To The Future"?

Baa, you had me quizzical for a few minutes there. Then it dawned on me who the other was! (And he is one of my favorites! ('m assuming you're thinking of the actor, right?)

Regarding quotes:
"Before you can smell the roses, often-times you must first smell the manure." (Snorkle McGorkle- The Keepers of the Pama-cootchie Seed. )

(ps. Baa, where's my .wav file, huh? Huh?) :>)

LOL I'd forgotten about the Mad Proff in back ot the future!

No I was thinking of the esteemed Christopher Lloyd, Mr Foliage Plant and Bold Planting Schemes, gardening writer who was born at Great Dixter in Sussex, UK and was wondering if there was an American gardening writer of the same name. Which is the rather dull explaination of that, lucky his name isn't Harold.

Ahh sorry Shoe, will tell you what happened in a minute ;)

Ow! (That's me thinking about darius' quote).

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off forever"
Mark Twain, I think!

Procrastination is an art of tha 1st drgree,
except when Its gardening.

Come on weeds;
I'm here few ya!

[smiling charlie]

"If wishes were kisses we'd all have sore lips"

The words of St. Augustine:" Almighty God, you have made us for Yourself and our hearts are restless 'til they find their rest in Thee."

Extras that made me smile when I read them :)

"Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly!"

A comment made to Winston Churchill: "Sir, if I was your wife I would poison your drink." His reply: "Madame - if I were your husband I'd drink it!"

"If you don't have anything nice to say about anyone - come sit next to me...."

*Blushing beet red.* We'd be proud to claim Christopher Lloyd as one of our own, but a Brit he is. TC got that from our own garden quotes, and I've sinced changed the credit to accurately reflect Mr. Lloyd's native errr.... habitat ;o)

Here's a few of mine:

"You can easily judge the character of a person by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him."

-Malcolm Forbes

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"Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us."
- William Barclay
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The things I say and do today
In memory's book I'll keep,
And
when I'm older and read them …
Will I laugh or will I weep?
- Unknown
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- Nothing in this world is single;
All things by a law divine
in each other's being mingle.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley
from "Love's Philosophy"

Enjoy,
Lottie

"To see how a man will treat his wife, watch him with his mother."

my favorite quote is one i wrote myself.....

"If GOD brings us one new GARDEN FRIEND a day, then we are truly blessed."

This country is where it is today on account of the real common sense of the big normal majority. Will Rogers.

I love Will Rogers and Mark Twain!

Be someone who finds something good in each day...Then give it to others.

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

My personal favorite is:

You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress.
But the measure of real success is one you cannot spend-
It's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
...Martin Baxbaum

that last one made me sniffy! :')

TXKITTY, your personal favorite touched my heart. Sometimes an overheard comment from your child is the sweetest reward, more precious than gold!
Pati

Those who fear love fear life. And those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Words of Bertrand Russell

Lassie kills chickens.
Anonymous

Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I'm going into the garden and eat worms.
Anonymous

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams"

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.- Karen Horney"

And:

If the world DIDN'T suck we would all fall off!

Bloom where you are planted

In the spring, as the end of the day, your hands should smell like dirt.

"Don't try to teach a pig to sing...it annoys the pig and wastes your time"

Some of my favorites:

A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.
- Proverb from Ethiopia

-Money is lie manure: It's not worth anything
unless you spread it around.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
- Joseph Joubert

To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses.

Isn't that the honest truth.......

"You can't un-ring a bell"

" If it's not broken, don't fix it! "

This is my favorite and I saw it on the back of an expensive sports car driven by a pretty blonde.

Born free, but I'm expensive now.